咦

咦 U+54A6, 咦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A6 ← 咥 [U+54A5] CJK Unified Ideographs 咧 → [U+54A7]

Translingual

Han character

咦 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口大弓 (RKN), four-corner 6503₂, composition ⿰口夷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3535
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 614, character 1
• Unihan data for U+54A6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 咦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (夷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
桋	*l'iːl, *lil
荑	*l'iːl, *lil
銕	*l'iːl, *l̥ʰiːd
鴺	*l'iːl, *lil
鮧	*l'iːl, *lil
洟	*l̥ʰiːls, *lil
羠	*ljilʔ, *lil
咦	*hril
夷	*lil
姨	*lil
痍	*lil
峓	*lil
恞	*lil
眱	*lil
蛦	*lil
胰	*lil, *lɯ
跠	*lil

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hril) : semantic 口 + phonetic 夷 (OC *lil).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji², ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji², ji⁴
    • Yale: yí, yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji², ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi², yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː³⁵/, /jiː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: xjij

Rime
Character	咦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	喜夷切
Baxter	xjij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/hi/
Shao Rongfen	/xjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hi/
Li Rong	/xi/
Wang Li	/xi/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hril/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咦
Reading #	1/1
No.	14861
Phonetic component	夷
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	咦
Old Chinese	/*hril/

Definitions

咦

1. An interjection used to express confusion. huh?

   咦，我的鑰匙呢？ [MSC, trad.]
   咦，我的钥匙呢？ [MSC, simp.]

   Yí, wǒ de yàoshi ne? [Pinyin]

   Huh? Where is my key?

   咦，他怎麼在這兒？ [MSC, trad.]
   咦，他怎么在这儿？ [MSC, simp.]

   Yí, tā zěnme zài zhèr? [Pinyin]

   Uh, why is he here?

2. (Cantonese) Expression of disgust. ew

Usage notes

• The first sense expresses a relatively neutral feeling.

Japanese

Kanji

咦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i); き (ki); たい (tai); だい (dai)
• Kun: といき (toiki)

Korean

Hanja

咦 • (i, jae) (hangeul 이, 재, revised i, jae, McCune–Reischauer i, chae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咦: Hán Nôm readings: gì, di, ri

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References

• Nom Foundation